The chapter opens with a question from the audience: "Who knows about us? It's san and your coworkers. Just our family. Right ? . . we're 16 years old. Straight hair, jiro looks just like a middle schooler. When he's asked to see him alone, he doesn't want to do anything. He's worried about school, and he'd like to know what's going on in his life. He wants to know if there's anything wrong with him, but he can't figure out what. OK, he says, he'll tell kota, but kota won't be too happy to hear about it. So, he tells himself, he should go home and get her. He asks if he has a new boyfriend, and if he thinks it's the same guy that he was with before. He tells himself that if he says anything, it will make the stalker say something. He also asks if there has been anything in the locker room that he hasn't been able to find out about. He wonders if there is anything in there that he should ask her about, and she says that she's not sure. He then asks if she heard him say that he had a boyfriend before, and where he heard it. He says that he cares about him, and that he still has a crush on her. So he wants to ask her straight-up, and then he asks what she was talking about when she asked him to see her alone. She says that there was a lot of work to be done before she could tell him anything. She asks him to tell her what he had to do before he could tell her anything.